Omicron scare: Delhi hotels see less bookings for second year in a row

However, the existing booking has not been cancelled.

talking to ANISanjeev, Front Office Manager, Hotel Lohias said, “We are not seeing any cancellations as of now. Things are going on as normal. For the last 3-4 days, we are seeing lesser customers in the hotel. Earlier, K. After the second wave, the situation improved and it was the same as it was before covid. We cannot say what could be the reason for less guests coming to the hotel, but yes the hotel is getting less guests.”

The Front Office Manager further informed that the hotel is following all the COVID protocols.

“We are using the same precautionary measures that we used to do during Covid. The entire staff wears masks, rooms are sanitized from time to time and guests are asked to wear masks before entering the hotel. We also sanitize the guests and their belongings,” said Sanjeev.

Talking about the declining trend in fresh bookings in hotels, Jitendra Kumar Yadav, Front Office Manager, Hotel The Class said that once again people are not traveling due to the fear of Covid and hence the decline in the number of new guests. I have come

Some hotels are also canceling bookings for customers failing to show their COVID vaccination certificate.

“We are seeing less number of bookings in hotels. In view of the COVID situation, people are not traveling and very less number of guests are coming. Sometimes, we have to cancel bookings on our behalf. As if If a customer is coming and they do not have their vaccination certificate or negative report of COVID, in that case, we have to cancel the booking. As a precaution, we provide masks to the guests if they do not have masks. We Let them clean and the rooms too,” he added ANI,

Mahesh, the front office manager of another City Hotel International Inn, however, said that the number of bookings earlier did not make much difference.

He said, “Not much difference. We haven’t seen cancellations of bookings. People are coming in as usual. We took precautions like use of sanitisers, sanitizing rooms, checking vaccination certificates and then allowing customers.” are.” said.

Notably, India has so far registered over 200 cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The new version of COVID-19 was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) from South Africa on 25 November. The WHO has classified Omicron as a type of concern. India reported its first case of Omicron on 2 December.

This story has been published without modification in text from a wire agency feed.